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Web Policy
1. We undertake to comply with the terms of our privacy policy (see below).

Security of Information
2. You agree that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be totally secure. Whilst we strive to protect information transmitted
by us, we do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any
information which you transmit to us. Accordingly, any information which
you transmit to us is transmitted at your own risk. Once we receive your
transmission, we will take reasonable steps to preserve the security of
such information.

Termination of Access
3. Access to this web site or any publication may be terminated at any time
by us without notice. Our disclaimer will nevertheless survive any such
termination.
4. You acknowledge that for technical reasons sometimes beyond our
control sometimes it may not be possible temporarily or otherwise to
provide you with services including the provision of publication.
Periodically access to our web site may be suspended without notice for
repair, maintenance, system failure or otherwise for reasons outside of
our control.


Variations
5. We reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions from time to
time. Amendments will be effective immediately upon notification on this
web site. Your continued use of the web site following such notification
will represent an agreement by you to be bound by the terms and
conditions as amended.

Account and Password Details
6. If we provide you with a password, user name or access code for our
web site you must keep that information confidential. In the event that
your account code and password are used by a third party, whether
inadvertent or not, you will be liable for any losses or damages including
Subscription fees suffered by us as a result of the unauthorised access.
If we have your credit card authority, then it will be debited to the extent
of any loss or damage suffered by us.

Users Rules
7. When using a web site you must not:
i. Upload, store, post, email or otherwise transmit any subparagraph
material that is inaccurate, unlawful, harmful,
threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar,
obscene, libellous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, racist,
bigoted or otherwise objectionable:
a. material that you do not have a right to transmit under any
applicable law or under any contractual or fiduciary
relationship;
b. material that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret,
copyright or any other proprietary right of any party;
c. advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain
letters, pyramid schemes or any other form or solicitation
except where specifically permitted;
d. material that contains software viruses or any other computer
code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit
the functionality of any computer software or hardware or
telecommunications equipment.
ii. Connect in an unauthorised manner to any web site;
iii. Copy, modified or create a derivative work of, reverse engineer,
reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source
code of any technology or software connected with any web site;
iv. Impersonate any person or falsely represent your affiliation with
any person;
v. Manipulate any identifies to disguise the origin of any material
transmitted;
vi. Act in any manner that negatively affects other users’ ability to
engage in any web site;
vii. Interfere with or disrupt any web site including servers,
networking, computer equipment or networks or disobey any
requirement, procedures or policies or regulations of any web site;
viii. Exploit any vulnerability of any web site;
ix. Attempt to gain access to any private areas of the web site;
x. Violate any government law or regulation of any jurisdiction;
xi. Stalk or harass another person;
xii. Harm minors in any way including without limitation establishing
unlawful conduct with minors;
xiii. Collect, intercept or harvest members’ names;
xiv. Collect intercept or store personal data about other users of the
network;
xv. Solicit or attempt to discover a user’s password, member name or
other registration or usage information,
xvi. Use any web site to conduct a competition;
xvii. Promote or provide instructions about how to engage in illegal
conduct or commit illegal activities intended to disrupt a web site;
xviii. Promote harm or physical activity or promote any illegal act or act
intended to cause harm to any web site or the internet in general;
xix. Publish any pornographic material;
xx. Store any information or use any web page or directory you
create including any member profile or posting in a public area.

Governing Law
8. These terms and conditions are governed by the laws in force in New
South Wales, Commonwealth of Australia.

To Return to the Web Site
9. To return to the web site, click where indicated. By doing so, you
acknowledge that you have read, understood and accept the above
terms of use.

Privacy Policy
We may collect web site visitors’ contact information (like their e-mail
addresses). Unless you object, this information may be used:
(a) to send news, information about our activities and general
promotional material which we believe may be useful to you;
(b) to monitor who is accessing the web site or using services offered
on the web site; and
(c) to profile the type of people accessing the web site.
If you do not wish to have your personal information used in this manner or for
any other specific purpose, you should e-mail us accordingly.
We may utilise “cookies” which enable us to monitor traffic patterns and to
serve you more efficiently if you revisit the site. A cookie does not identify you
personally but it does identify your computer. You can set your browser to
notify you when you receive a cookie and this will provide you with an
opportunity to either accept or reject it in each instance.
We will not sell or otherwise provide your personal information to a third party,
or make any other use of your personal information, for any purpose which is
not incidental to your use of this web site. For the removal of doubt, personal
information will not be used for any purpose which a reasonable person in
your position would not expect.
If you request us not to use personal information in a particular manner or at
all, we will adopt all reasonable measures to observe your request but we
may still use or disclose that information if:
(d) we subsequently notify you of the intended use or disclosure and
you do not object to that use or disclosure;
(e) we believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to
assist a law enforcement agency or an agency responsible for
government or public security in the performance of their functions;
or
(f) we are required by law to disclose the information.
We will preserve the content of any e-mail you send us if we believe we have
the legal requirement to do so.
Your e-mail message content may be monitored by us for trouble-shooting or
maintenance purposes or if any form of e-mail abuse is suspected.
Personal information which we collect may be aggregated for analysis but in
such circumstances we would ensure that individuals would remain
anonymous.
All personal information which we collect (including your contact details and, if
relevant, credit card details) is kept confidential to the best of our ability. You
will appreciate, however, that we cannot guarantee the security of
transmission.
We consider it is the responsibility of parents to monitor their children’s use of
our web site. Nevertheless it is our policy not to require personal information
from persons known to be under the age of 18 years or offer to send any
promotional material to persons in that category.
You are entitled to have access to any personal information relating to you
which you have previously supplied to us over this web site. You are entitled
to edit or delete such information unless we are required by law to retain it.
If you wish to comment on or query our privacy policy, or if you wish to make
an inquiry regarding any personal information relating to you which may be in
our possession, contact us on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 61 2 9332 2725